Thinking About the PAst (TAPAS) is pleased to announced the programme for their workshop '(Dis)Claiming Pasts: Ownership, Responsibility and Contestation' in Ghent on 14-15 December 2017. Keynote speakers are prof. Robert Meister, prof. George Nicholas and dr. Amy Hinterberger.
Location: KANTL, Koningstraat 18, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
All welcome, please register here.
14 December
08:30-09:00: Registration
09:00-09:15: Welcome address and introduction by organisers
09:15-10:15: Keynote lecture by Prof. Robert Meister
Intertemporal Justice
10:15-10-45: Coffee break
10:45-12:30: Panel 1: Juridical and Theoretical Perspectives
Chair: Berber Bevernage
- Ulad Belavusau
Memory Laws in European Perspective
- Nanor Kebranian
The Juridical Performative
- Eric Heinze
Theorising Law and Historical Memory: Denialism and the Pre-conditions of Human Rights
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-15:15: Panel 2: Cultural Property I
Chair: Katie Digan
- Evelien Campfens
Whose cultural heritage? The Bangwa Queen: A Human Rights Law Approach to Repatriation Claims Concerning Indigenous Cultural Heritage
- Jos Van Beurden
Decolonisation of Colonial Collections by Belgium and the Netherlands
- Kenan Van de Mieroop
The Post-Racial Era and Historical Present
15:15-15:45: Coffee break
15:45-17:30: Panel 3: Memory and History in the Public Sphere
Chair: Eva Willems
- Dienke Hondius
Recognising Slavery Heritage: Recent Development in Historical Research and the Politics of Memory Around Locations in Amsterdam and New York
- Lars Deile
'Bitte stehen lassen': Urban Planning, Politics and History in Postwar Germany. The Potsdam Case
- Dietlinde Wouters
Epistemic Authority and Truth Commissions: The cases of Argentina, Chile, El Salvador and South Africa
19:00: Conference dinner
15 December
09:15-10:15: Keynote lecture by prof. George Nicholas
Understanding the Harm when (Indigenous) Heritage is Appropriated
10:15-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-13:00: Panel 3: Identity and the Past
Chair: Rafael Verbuyst
- Felicitas Becker
Muslim Reformist Preachers in East-Africa
- Inge Brinckman
Self-realisation, History and the State in Mau Mau Autobiographies
- Yessim Yaprak Yildiz
(Dis)avowal of State Violence: Confessions of State Officials on Mass Atrocities against Kurds in Turkey
- Egon Bauwelinck
The Antinomy of the Historian and the Descendant. A Case of Dreyfusard Racism
13:00-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:45: Panel 4: Cultural Property II
Chair: Egon Bauwelinck
- Vincent Négri and Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff
Saujana and Taonga: Two Ways of (Dis)Claiming the Past with Regard to Cultural Heritage
- Nimalka Passanha
Safe Havens: A Political Agenda Shrouded in an Apolitical Culturally Internationalist Narrative
- Irina Tarsis
It's Complicated: Russian or Ukrainian? Assessing a Century of Contested Ukrainian Cultural Property
15:45-16:15: Coffee break
16:15-17:15: Keynote lecture by Dr. Amy Hinterberger
Repatriating Blood: Ethics, Property and Ownership in Biomedical Research
17:15-17:30: Break
17:30-18:30: Closing roundtable discussion
Stephan Parmentier, Susan Legêne, Berber Bevernage
18:30: City walk
This conference is organized by the research group Thinking About the Past (TAPAS): Berber Bevernage, Katie Digan, Rafael Verbuyst, Eva Willems
Contact: Disclaimingpasts@gmail.com